Vincentian priests and brothers have had a presence in Cape Girardeau since the parish was founded in 1836. Two years before that, the Rev. John Timon rode from Perryville to Cape Girardeau on horseback to hold Mass.
Two years after the first Vincentian priest arrived in Cape Girardeau, the idea for St. Vincent’s College was developed. For decades, Vincentian brothers taught at the school to prepare young boys — Prost among them — to enter the Vincentian priesthood.
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